Usually, the Kennedys attended mass across the street at St. Edward’s Catholic Church, where a plaque now on a pew eight from the rear of the church reads: “President John F. Kennedy knelt here at Mass.”

But that Sunday -- Nov. 17, 1963 -- Kennedy attended Mass at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in West Palm Beach. A small peephole behind the vestry into the rectory is visible if you look closely; the Secret Service drilled it to keep an eye on the President as he worshiped.

There is a picture in the church vestibule showing Kennedy as he exited the church, smiling at churchgoers eager for his attention.

After church, he made a major announcement to party officials: he was going to make Palm Beach his Democratic re-election headquarters.

Later, Kennedy went back to the compound and watched a football game, and then a private screening of the movie “Tom Jones.”

Then Kennedy followed his motorcade back to the airport. Photographer Bob Davidoff snapped a shot of Kennedy waving goodbye on the tarmac. Davidoff recalls in his memoir that Kennedy told him, “Goodbye, I’ll see you in a few weeks.”

Kennedy never returned to Palm Beach; he was assassinated in Texas just five days later.

WE WILL STAY ON TOP AND BRING YOU MORE AS SOON AS WE GET THEM. DAYS BEFORE KENNEDY WAS AASSASSINATED HE MADE A TRIP TO HIS PLACES PALM BEACH. RETRACE THE PRESIDENT'S STEP LIVE IN THE NEWS ROOM. AUFLT PLACES THE PRESIDENT INDIVIDUALED THAT LAST WEEKEND ARE THERE. AND EVERYONE WHO IS IN PALM BEACH WILL NOT FORGET HE ONCE CALLED PALM BEACH HIS SECOND HOME. 50 YEARS AGO TODAY. KENNEDY THROUGH TO PALM BEACH AIRPORT GOING TO THE KENNEDY COMPOUND ON MOERTH COUNTY ROAD MUCH IT WAS A FAVORITE SPOT ARE FULL KEN DEES WHEN ENDED UP AT GREEN'S PHARMACY. THE KENNEDY CLAN PATRONIZED THIS STORE WHEN THEY WERE IN TOWN AND TODAY PEOPLE AND IN. YOU KNOW WHICH SEAT HE SAT N. LOCAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND ATTENDED MASSAD SAINT EDWARDS. AFTER CHURCH BACK ACROSS THE STREET TO GREENS. HE CAME IN FOR ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. THAT WEEKEND THE PRESIDENT WENT TO THE SHUFRP ON OLIVE AVENUE AM YOU SEAT PEEP HOLE IN THE DRILLED BITE SECRET SERVICE TO WACHT PRESIDENT. HANG THIS IS PICTURE OF KENNEDY LEAVING MASS HIS LAST MASS AFTER CHURCH HE TOLD PARTY OFFICIALS HIS ANNOUNCEMENT HE WAS GOING TO MAKE PALM BEACH HIS DEMOCRATIC REELECTION HEADQUARTERS. LAST SUNDAY OF HIS LIFE HE RELAXED AT THE PALM BEACH COMPOUND HE WATCHED A FOOTBALL GAME AND A PRIVATE SCREENING OF TOM JONES AND LEFT PALM BEACH FOR THE LAST TIME. KENNEDY FOLLOWED HIS CAR BACK TO THE ASHLT. HERE IS THE SHOT THE LAST TIME HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO TEXAS. AS HE WAIVED HE SAID I WILL SEE NUA FEW WEEKS. OF COURSE, NO ONE HAD ANY FORBODING THAT PRESIDENT KENNEDY WOULD NOT COME BACK TO PALM